Spring 2025

ENVECON 153 001 - LEC 001

Population, Environment, and Development

Ethan Ligon

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025

10:00 am - 11:59 am

Social Sciences Building 110

Class #:28204

Units: 3

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 8

Enrolled: 46

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 54

Waitlist Max: 15

Open Reserved Seats:

1 reserved for Society and Environment Majors

2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.

Final Exam

FRI, MAY 16TH

03:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Social Sciences Building 170

Other classes by Ethan Ligon

+ 1 Independent Study

ARESEC 299 009 009IND

Course Catalog Description

This course takes a quantitative, hands-on approach to understanding the challenges of feeding the human population of the planet Earth. We’ll discuss topics of nutrition, subsistence food consumption, and consumer demand for food to develop our understanding of the current situation. We’ll then develop both theories and computer models of population dynamics taking into account people’s decisions about childbearing, changes in mortality, and changes in food supply in order to learn something about the future of food. Focus throughout the course will be on developing practical tools to work with real-world data.